Lisa Schwarzbaum

"The movie is saved from unbearable lightness by the simplicity of the storytelling and the authenticity of the performances."

"An effortlessly clever animated confection."

"Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent."

"Requires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it."

"It's left to Caine to wink and nod at his own contribution to real caper classics of the 1960s and '70s, produced with more emphasis on fun and less on instructive fact-finding."

"The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha."

"Storyboarded with precision, and enhanced with a resonant score by Deborah Lurie, Acker’s handsome, feature-length 9 is, for all its visual flights of fancy, grounded in an apocalypse-proof message graspable by any schoolchild."

"If I ran the circus, the gang that made the sturdy, witty, inventively animated Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! would get first dibs on any future movie productions of the Theodor Seuss Geisel canon."

"Creator producers Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere have come up with some unexceptional children and underdeveloped adults."

"Writers raised with Dr. Spock and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood as spiritual guides. But the creative team also dispatches overeducated parenthood and post-permissive childhood with wry, observant wit."  

"There's only one Carax, uncompromisingly ambiguous."

"It's a buoyant, old-wave disaster pic for a generation of well-conditioned thrill seekers"

"An overstructured, overacted indie drama about gambling, addiction, and the sawdusty romanticism of old-time magicians."

"The most unexpectedly audacious, exhilarating, wildly creative adventure thriller I've seen in ages."

"Parker has a great time being the anti–Carrie Bradshaw while Keaton-as-matriarch is a particular joy -- funny, beautiful, elegant, touching, and at ease with a familiar, get-out-your-hankies holiday subplot."

"A gaily funny, shrewdly inventive satire."

"Gruesome stuff — and yet Body Bags moves along with such jaunty, good bad taste that it’s hard not to smile."  

"A compelling, cant free drama about clashing class systems and challenged family relationships that's all the more engrossing for its organic, near documentary style."

"Thompson, also making her directorial debut, is undaunted by would-be neigh-sayers."

"It seems carefully calibrated to shock viewers out of a familiar frame of reference, while leaving nothing behind to take its place."